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Author(s): Jacob Neusner, Ernest S. Frerichs, Nahum M. Sarna
Edition: 1St Edition
Year: 1989
Language: English
Pages: 270
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......Page 1
FROM ANCIENT ISRAEL TO MODERN JUDAISM, Volume III......Page 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 6
Preface......Page 14
Bibliography of Marvin Fox 1946-1989......Page 18
Part Eleven: JUDAISM IN THE MIDDLE AGES - PHILOSOPHERS: MAIMONIDES AND HIS HEIRS......Page 26
31. Isadore Twersky: Aspects of Maimonides' Epistemology: Halakah and Science......Page 28
32. Howard Kreisel: Intellectual Perfection and the Role of the Law in the Philosophy of Maimonides......Page 50
Introduction......Page 72
I. Maimonides on the Creation of the World......Page 74
II. Maimonides on the Role of Philosophical Reflection on Creation......Page 93
Conclusion......Page 100
34. Charles M. Raffel: Maimonides' Fundamental Principles Redivivus......Page 102
Internal Evidence from Perek Helek......Page 104
Evidence from Mishneh Torah......Page 106
Evidence from Moreh Nevukhim......Page 110
35. Howard Adelman: Another More nevukhim:The Italian Background and the Educational Program of Leon Modena's More nevukhim bikhtivah bilshonenu hakadosh......Page 114
Elementary Jewish Education in Venice......Page 116
The Elementary Curriculum......Page 118
Jewish Higher Education in Venice......Page 120
Modena's Aids for Self-Study......Page 123
Conclusion......Page 132
Part Twelve: JUDAISM IN THE MIDDLE AGES - PHILOSOPHERS: JUDAH HALEVI......Page 134
36. Daniel J. Lasker: Judah Halevi and Karaism......Page 136
Ha-Levi on the Origin of Human Language......Page 152
The Superiority of Oral Communication......Page 154
"From the Mouth of Authors, and Not from Books"......Page 155
The Superiority of Biblical Poetry......Page 159
Moses Mendelssohn......Page 161
The Importance of the Biblical Cantillation Notes......Page 163
Biblical Poetry......Page 166
Mendelssohn's Jerusalem: The Superiority of Judaism......Page 167
Oral Instruction......Page 169
Visible Symbols......Page 170
The Ceremonial Commandments instead of Symbols......Page 171
The Superiority of Judaism......Page 172
The Oral Torah......Page 174
Ahad Ha-'Am......Page 176
"The People of the Book" and not "a Literary People"......Page 178
Conclusion......Page 179
Part Thirteen: HASIDISM: MESSIANISM IN MODERN TIMES......Page 182
38. Yehuda Friedlander: Hasidism as the Image of Demonism: the Satiric Writings of Judah Leib Mises......Page 184
I. The Point of View of the Editor-Satirist in "A Word to the Reader"......Page 187
II. The Point of View of the Editor-Satirist in"A Conversation in the World of Souls"......Page 189
III. Maimonides and the Author of Mirkevet ha-Mishneh: between Routine and Innovation......Page 192
IV. Maimonides and the "Editoi" (Judah Leib Mises) in Their Condemnation of False Beliefs......Page 199
39. Sid Z. Leiman: When a Rabbi is Accused of Heresy - R. Ezekiel Landau's Attitude Toward R. Jonathan Eibeschuetz in the Emden-Eibeschuetz Controversy......Page 204
Part Fourteen: THE MODERN AGE: PHILOSOPHY......Page 220
40. Wendell S. Dietrich: The Character and Status of the Concept of History in Three Twentieth Century Systems of Judaic Thought: Cohen, Rosenzweig, Levinas......Page 222
Works Consulted......Page 235
I. Introduction......Page 238
II. Kant's Description of Intuition......Page 239
III. Heschel's Rejection of Kant......Page 247
42. Benjamin Ravid: Ararat and Its Fortress: Excerpts from the Rawidowicz-Margulies Correspondence......Page 252
Index......Page 274
